Dafydd Wigley
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The Right Honourable The Lord Wigley |
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| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Caernarfon |
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In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003 |
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| Preceded by | New Assembly |
| Succeeded by | Alun Ffred Jones |
| Member of Parliament for Caernarfon |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Goronwy Roberts |
| Succeeded by | Hywel Williams |
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1 April 1943 Derby, England |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru |
| Spouse(s) | Elinor Bennett |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Manchester |
Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley (born 1 April 1943), born David Wigley, is a Welsh politician. He served as Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Caernarfon from 1974 until 2001 and as an Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 until 2003. He was leader of the Plaid Cymru party from 1991 to 2000. On 19 November 2010 it was announced that he had been granted a peerage by the Queen, and took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Wigley, of Caernarfon on 24 January 2011.
Wigley was born in Derby, England, the only child of Welsh parents Elfyn Edward Wigley and Myfanwy Batterbee. He attended Caernarfon grammar school and Rydal School before going on to the Victoria University of Manchester and training as an accountant. He was employed by Hoover as a financial controller before entering parliament.
After being defeated at Merioneth in 1970, in 1974 Wigley became one of Plaid Cymru's first three MPs to be elected at a General Election, and first became the party's president in 1981. Gwynfor Evans had led Plaid Cymru since 1945, but resigned after the devastating defeat of the Yes Campaign in the devolution referendum of 1979. It was naturally assumed that either Wigley or Dafydd Elis Thomas would succeed him as president.
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